[Leica] Vacation Camera Lenses: What did NOT work?

[frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)]

Frank,
On holiday in Scotland this "summer" I carried a smallish bag containing the 
kit I have distilled down to over the years. It now carries a M8, the two 
tri-elmars, 28mm f2, 75mm f3.5 CV, table tripod, eyepiece magnifier, cable 
release 2 spare batteries an 1 spare memory card.
I use the standard tri elmar most when outside.
Other Frank


--- On Fri, 10/10/08, Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Vacation Camera Lenses: What did NOT work?
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Friday, 10 October, 2008, 4:06 PM
> Vick.. you hit on the reason I started this thread..... we
> are all getting
> older.  It is seemingly impossible for "us" to
> carry the stuff we used to,
> even a few years ago.  So what to bring and what to leave
> behind?   What
> matches the trip?  What does not?
> 
> While we are all individuals with individual
> "seeing", there are some thing
> that just do not work.  ( My examples of long lenses on the
> Oregon/N.Cal
> coast).  Now someone will counter, and will ahev made some
> wonderful images
> along the Oregon coast with a long lens.  Does this means
> carrying a 3 pound
> lens for 2 weeks, because there MIGHT BE a good shot along
> the trip is a
> good idea...?  Is your shoulder/back/neck worth the chance?
> 
> Let's all try to contribute to what (generally ) does
> not work.... and
> why.....  We all have experiences.....
> 
> BTW, the reason I go into M Leicas was because my Nikon F4
> + Backup 8008 +
> 3-4 Lenses was just too heavy for me.  The equivalent M
> system is 1/2 or
> less of the weight and volume.
> 
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
> 
> 
> Oh, my story this vacation was that I think I screwed up my
> left shoulder 
> slinging the camera bag off my right side for 2 weeks.  Ten
> years ago, my 
> body wouldn't even have noticed.  This year, I had a
> mysterious pain 
> on/under/at my left shoulder blade since returning home at
> the end of 
> August, and it is only now that I feel that it is
> "cured".  As I sit at this
> 
> table and type, I still sense a bit of it.
> 
> While I love the brass and glass of Leica lenses, I think
> I'll be slinging 
> around fewer of them on trips and will be more careful of
> the selection, to 
> match "the trip".
> 
> ...Vick
> 
> 
> 
> 
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